Siglo XX (place)
| Siglo XX | |||
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 The Siglo XX mine in the 1940s |
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| Basic data | |||
| Residents (state) | 5834 pop. (2012 census) | ||
| rank | Rank 77 | ||
| height | 3898 m | ||
| Post Code | 05-0203-0100-7001 | ||
| Telephone code | (+591) | ||
| Coordinates | 18 ° 25 ′ S , 66 ° 35 ′ W | ||
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| politics | |||
| Department | Potosí | ||
| province | Rafael Bustillo Province | ||
| climate | |||
 Climate diagram Uncía |
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Siglo XX (German: 20th century , pronounced: "Siglo Veinte") is a mining town in the Potosí department in the South American Andean highlands of Bolivia .
Location in the vicinity
The city of Siglo XX is the second largest town in the district ( Bolivian : Municipio ) Llallagua in the province of Rafael Bustillo . The city is located at an altitude of 3898 m directly adjacent to the neighboring city of Llallagua , eight kilometers north of the provincial capital Uncía . Siglo XX is a pure mining settlement consisting of simple terraced houses for the miners of the Siglo XX mine .
geography
Siglo XX lies at the transition from the Oruro highlands to the Potosí mountains. The city is bordered in the north and west by the high mountain ranges of the Cordillera Central . The vegetation is that of the puna , the climate a typical time of day climate , in which the daily temperature fluctuations are greater than the monthly fluctuations.
The mean annual average temperature is 9 ° C, the monthly averages vary between just under 5 ° C in June / July and 11 ° C from November to March (see climate diagram Uncía). The annual precipitation is 370 mm and falls mainly in the summer months, the arid period with monthly values of a maximum of 10 mm lasts from April to October.
Transport network
Siglo XX is located at a distance of 100 kilometers southeast of Oruro , the capital of the department of the same name.
From Oruro, the paved road Ruta 1 leads south 22 kilometers via Vinto to Machacamarquita , eight kilometers north of Machacamarca . In Machacamarquita, Ruta 6 branches off in a south-easterly direction and reaches the cities of Llallagua and Siglo XX via Huanuni and over pass heights of more than 4,500 m after 79 kilometers. From there the Ruta 6 leads a further 98 kilometers via Uncia to Macha . In Macha a dirt road branches off in a south-westerly direction and after 33 kilometers leads back to Ruta 1 at Ventilla . From here to the department capital Potosí there is another 109 kilometers.
economy
The tin mines near Llallagua were among the largest and richest ore deposits in the world, here the tin baron Simón I. Patiño founded his world empire, and the largest mine in Latin America was located here. After the collapse of the tin market in the 1980s, the Bolivian mines were re-privatized and many were gradually closed, including Siglo XX. Today in Siglo XX many live Mineros , which on their own or in small cooperatives work or in the old mine shafts in miserable conditions of safety the rubble of the huge slag heaps browse for Zinnresten.
population
The city's population has been declining since tin production fell, but has now stabilized again:
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1992 | 8 169 | census |
| 2001 | 7 202 | census |
| 2012 | 5 834 | census |
Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population, in the municipality of Llallagua 66.9 percent of the population speak the Quechua language. Life expectancy in the municipality of Llallagua is 58.2 years, the literacy rate for those over 15 is 83 percent.
Individual evidence
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
- ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
- ↑ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ INE social data (PDF; 4.4 MB)
Web links
- Relief map Region Uncia 1: 250,000 (JPG; 8.3 MB)
- Municipio Llallagua - detailed map and population data (PDF; 420 kB) ( Spanish )
- Municipio Llallagua - General Maps No. 50203
- Department Potosí - social data of the municipalities ( Spanish ) (PDF; 5.23 MB)
